I love the process: finding, collecting, cutting, deconstructing, selecting, recomposing, pasting… Over the years, I have used different media (painting, drawing, engraving, photogravure), and my personal conception of collage has been shaped at the intersection of all these practices.

I’ve written a lot throughout this process, and many of those words revolve around the same idea: a sensitivity toward what is broken, old, worn, used, weathered, walked-through, felt. There’s a strong identification with everything that carries history, marks, and memory. I understand those who see beauty in that.

I’ve been working primarily on my photographic woodblock pieces. They usually end up on mulberry paper, and sometimes on stretched raw calico. Recently, many of these works have featured images of orchestras and conductors, as well as frames from various video pieces.

Lately, I’ve been interested in portraying silence—spaces where a certain nostalgia coexists. Capturing the moment of what no longer exists.

I spent the winter in Mexico City, and from there I drew inspiration for a series of images based on the traffic of this city. I’m very interested in the contrast between speed, solid concrete, and natural forms—how these three layers coexist.

It’s easier to adhere to rules and judge based on imposed, defined, and clear canons, but it’s also suffocating—at least for me and for my eye, which doesn’t naturally see through those parameters.

This project was more of a reminder: that history matters. And while every generation and culture has its issues, using technology that forces you to slow down really does work wonders for the mind and heart.

My recent work has been somewhat introspective. I want to represent how humanity dissolves into spaces, what traces it leaves behind; that process between interacting with a space and no longer being in it has occupied much of my thinking, and now I direct my eye toward that.

It has been a very interesting process because along the way I discovered that there are many ways to create narratives—not only those we might call conventional—which also encourages continuous experimentation.

A desire to see familiar places with fresh eyes, to honor imperfection, and to reconnect with the magic found in everyday life.

My grandma is visiting for the Lunar New Year, and I am documenting her recipes with illustrations. My sketchbook is currently full of scallion pancakes, kimchi, and dumplings.

It’s been really fun shooting live performances on film and interviewing artists and organisers. I also do work covering protests and events that happen in my city.

I’m interested in how images can inhabit space, how sequences are built, and how a book can function almost like a structure—something you enter rather than scroll through.

There’s a quote by Susan Sontag that says: “To photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.” While her statement is completely true, photography for me has been a way of savoring what surrounds me, not excluding it-

I think each project can be a great teacher if you listen carefully. Working with large-scale entities is always something I find enlightening, as you do get to see the inner workings and behind the scenes of companies that shape the current discourse and economy.

I enjoy working with error, with time, and with chance—slower, more experimental processes where each image becomes almost an event.

I am planning to travel and document the lives of people who still live close to their traditions and to nature, and through this process, to understand them and myself more deeply.

These specific works—the pencil drawings and the woodblocks—carry more texture. They are more labor-intensive and require patience, repetition, and resilience.

Around that time, it became a creature that inhabited my home, whose cloth-covered gaze I couldn’t escape in any corner of my room. Something familiarly melancholic made me want to photograph it in its everyday coexistence.

You have to keep shooting as often as you can to stay inspired. If you keep practicing photography, you’ll be able to get out of the rut and find inspiration and motivation.